- From: Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:40:51 -0800
- To: www-international <www-international@w3.org>
- Cc: Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>
I've only read a few sections of the spec [1] so far; here are the comments I have for them. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-its20-20121206 Norbert Global comments: - A number of headings are missing spaces between section number and title. - Numerous sentences appear to be missing articles. I've noted some of them below, but some careful copy-editing seems necessary. 1 Introduction - "NIF" should be spelled out on first use - I didn't know what it is. 1.2 Motivation for ITS - Links for DocBook and DITA would be useful. 1.2.1 Typical Problems - Is there any support for strings that are not translatable but localizable, such as NavajoWhite in Example 1 or images/cancel.gif in Example 2? 1.3.1.6Text Analytics - "These types of users": Do you mean "this type of service"? 1.3.1.7Localization Workflow Managers - concerend -> concerned - "bitext format": what's that? (Yes, I found out. Still, I first thought this was a typo...) 1.4.1 Support for legacy HTML content - "migrate their content to HTML": this probably should be HTML5. 2.1 Selection - "CSS and other query languages": I guess you mean CSS selectors? - "supported by application" -> "supported by the application" - "http://docbook.org/ns /docbook" -> "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 5.7 Conversion to NIF - This section requires a normative reference to the NIF specification, but there is none in Appendix A. 6 Using ITS Markup in HTML - This section should clarify that by "HTML" it really means "HTML5 in HTML syntax". It's not HTML 4, because that doesn't have a translate attribute. It's also not HTML5 in XHTML syntax, because that is case sensitive and has real namespaces. - After reading section 2.2.3 of the HTML5 spec, I'm still not quite sure whether HTML5 documents with its-* attributes are conformant HTML5 documents, or whether they have to be labeled "conforming HTML5+ITS documents". Any clear answer? - This section requires a normative reference to the HTML5 specification, but there is none in Appendix A. - "Name of HTML attribute" -> "The name of the HTML attribute", "the name of attribute" -> "the name of the attribute" - "will gets" -> "will get" 7 Using ITS Markup in XHTML - I assume this section is also meant to cover HTML5 documents in XHTML syntax. If so, this should be called out. 8.5 Directionality - Unicode, HTML, and CSS are adding new characters/tags/attributes/properties to support isolates. Details are still being discussed, but ITS should probably reflect the outcome. Appendix B: - File extensions are commonly specified with leading period, i.e., ".its". - .its is used for some other file types - don't know whether that's likely to cause problems: http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/its
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